Where a commercial sales representative can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a commercial sales representative already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 79%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 4difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 76required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- technical sales representative in machinery and industrial equipment 79% covered · difficulty 29.3
- technical sales representative 78% covered · difficulty 31
- after-sales service technician 64% covered · difficulty 37.5
- technical sales representative in the textile machinery industry 82% covered · difficulty 24
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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commercial sales representative is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a commercial sales representative already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.